Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample is plagiarized or uses the source correctly. If the student sample is plagiarized, click on Plagiarized; if the sample is acceptable, click on OK.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
The great and abiding fear of the South was of slave revolt. . . For many Southerners it was psychologically impossible to see a black man bearing arms as anything but an incipient slave uprising complete with arson, murder, pillage, and rapine. The South was haunted throughout the war by a deep and horrible fear that the North would send -- or was sending -- agitators among their slaves to incite them to insurrection. That no such barbarous scheme was resorted to by the Union is a credit to the humanity and good sense of the Lincoln administration, although it was urged enough by some radicals.
From Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. 1956. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 1987. The source passage is from page 158.
STUDENT SAMPLE
Civil War historian Dudley Taylor Cornish observes that many Southerners were so terrified of slave revolts that the sight of armed black men filled them with fear (158).
A) plagiarized
B) OK
2.
Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample is plagiarized or uses the source correctly. If the student sample is plagiarized, click on Plagiarized; if the sample is acceptable, click on OK.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Apart from the fact that music accounts for much of the power of Hindi movies, creating a heightened mood that dialogue can rarely achieve, the file song spreads out from cinema to permeate many other areas of Indian society. Even before the advent of cheap audiocassettes, in the days when record players were rare and expensive, film songs achieved far-reaching popularity through street singers and wedding bands, which often played film hits rather than folk or traditional tunes. And the songs, with their inventive Hindi/Urdu lyrics (often written by celebrated poets) have long been a bonding force in the Indian diaspora, re-creating a familiar world of images and emotions and linking millions of people to their homeland.
From Kabir, Nasreen Munni. "Playback Time: A Brief History of Bollywood 'Film Songs." Film Comment May-June 2002: 41-43. The source passage is from page 41.
STUDENT SAMPLE
In India, film music creates a heightened mood that accounts for a great deal of the power of Hindi movies, prepares Nasreen Munni Kabir (41).
A) Plagiarized
B) OK
3.
Select the MLA in-text citation that is handled correctly.
The student is quoting from page 148 of the following magazine article:
Als, Hilton. "Wayward Girl." New Yorker 18-25 Aug. 2003: 147-49.
A) One reviewer describes Cat Power as "a storyteller . . . [who] cares more about how she says something than about what she says." (Als 148).
B) Als describes Cat Power as "a storyteller . . . [who] cares more about how she says something than about what she says" (148).
4.
The student is quoting from page 26 of the following source:
Hawley, Richard A. Thinking about Drugs and Society: Responding to an Epidemic. New York: Walker, 1988.
A) Richard A. Hawley reports that although the ancient Chinese used marijuana for medical purposes, "there is no record of the Chinese using it as a pleasure-producing drug" (26).
B) Richard A. Hawley reports that although the ancient Chinese used marijuana for medical purposes, "there is no record of the Chinese using it as a pleasure-producing drug." (26)
5.
Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample uses the source correctly. If the student has made an error in using the source, click on Error; if the student sample is correct, click on OK.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Most of us think that S.U.V.s are much safer than sports cars. If you asked the young parents of America whether they would rather strap their infant child in the back seat of a TrailBlazer [a Chevrolet SUV] or the passenger seat of a Boxster [a Porsche sports car], they would choose the TrailBlazer. We feel that way because in the TrailBlazer our chances of surviving a collision with a hypothetical tractor-trailer in the other lane are greater than they are in the Porsche. What we forget, though, is that in the TrailBlazer you're also much more likely to hit the tractor-trailer because you can't get out of the way in time. In the parlance of the automobile world, the TrailBlazer is better at "passive safety." The Boxster is better when it comes to "active safety," which is every bit as important.
From Gladwell, Malcolm. "Big and Bad." New Yorker 12 Jan. 2004: 28-33. The source passage is from page 31.
STUDENT SAMPLE
Malcolm Gladwell points out that drivers feel safer in an SUV than in a sports car because they think that the SUV driver's "chances of surviving a collision with a hypothetical tractor-trailer in the other lane are greater" (31).
A) Error
B) OK
6.
Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample uses the source correctly. If the student has made an error in using the source, click on Error; if the student sample is correct, click on OK.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
More than 1% of California's electricity comes from the wind. During breezy early mornings in summer, the contribution goes even higher. At those times, the wind accounts for up to 8% of our utility and a major booster of wind power.
Half of California's turbines . . . are located in Altamont Pass and feed directly into PG&E's grid. Most of the rest are found in two other major wind centers: Tehachapi Pass on the edge of the Mojave Desert between Bakersfield and Barstow, with a capacity of 458 megawatts, and San Gorgonio Pass north of Palm Springs (231 megawatts). Both are hooked up to the power lines of Southern California Edison.
From Golden, Frederic. "Electric Wind." Los Angeles Times 24 Dec. 1990:B1.
STUDENT SAMPLE
California has pioneered the use of wind power. "Half of California's turbines . . . are located in Altamont Pass" (Golden B1).
A) Error
B) OK
7.
Select the MLA works cited entry that is handled correctly.
The student cites an article, "Bollywood Confidential," by Lisa Tsering. It appeared on the Web site Salon.com.prx.proxywebsite.co.uk on January 28, 2003. The preparer accessed the site on April 29, 2004, and the URL is http://archive.salon.com.prx.proxywebsite.co.uk/ent/movies/feature/2003/01/28/bollywood.
A) Tsering, Lisa. "Bollywood Confidential." Salon.com. 28 Jan. 2003. 29 Apr. 2004 .
B) Tsering, Lisa. "Bollywood Confidential." 28 Jan. 2003. Salon.com. 29 Apr. 2004 http://archive.salon.com.prx.proxywebsite.co.uk/ent/movies/feature/2003/01/28/bollywood.
8.
Select the MLA works cited entry that is handled correctly.
The student has paraphrased page 163 of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, a book by Peter Biskind that was published in New York in 1998 by Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
A) Biskind, Peter. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. New York: Touchstone-Simon, 1998.
B) Biskind, Peter. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Touchstone-Simon: New York, 1998.
9.
A parenthetical citation in the text of the paper must always include the following information if available: the author's name, the work's title, and a page number.
A) True
B) False
10.
The works cited list is organized alphabetically by the authors' last names (or by title for a work with no author).
A) True
B) False